Sonia Nagorski

Research Assistant Professor

Environmental Science
Snow-to-air exchanges of mercury in
Arctic snow
Direct determination of mercury at the
picogram per gram levels in polar snow and
ice by ICP-SFMS
J. Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 19 (7)
Mercury concentrations in a 200-year ice core
record from Mont Blanc
Am. Geophys. Union Fall Mtg 2004.

Hg deposition onto snow surfaces during

mercury depletion events in Ny-Alesund
(Svalbard) from April to May 2003
7th Internatl Conf on Mercury as a Global
Pollutant. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2004.
 Lisa Hoferkamp, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Transport of contaminants
Water quality and effects on biota
Kinetics of deposition
Metal speciation in anaerobic conditions
 Eran Hood
Assistant Professor of Hydrology
Snow hydrology & snow chemistry
Alpine hydrology
Watershed-scale biogeochemistry
C and N cycling in aquatic systems
 Ecology of Ice-associated Seals

Brendan P. Kelly
Eran Hood
John Moran
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Cumulative Proportion

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0.4
2002
0.2
2000
1999
2003 2001
0
24-Apr 4-May 14-May 24-May 3-Jun 13-Jun
Dr. Eran Hood
 y = 1.05x - 9.06
170
Day of lair abandonment
2
r = 0.982
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150
145
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130 140 150 160 170
Day of snowmelt (passive microwave)
 Male
2003

Female 2003 Male 2002

Female 2002
Do all seals return to
the same breeding
sites?
Are these
their own
birth sites?
 24 May 2005
Capture Locations

Pt. Barrow

Peard Bay
13 July 2005

Pt. Barrow

Peard Bay
 eb 25 Jul
ss 1 Jul
sj 5 Aug
ib 1 Aug
jj at Russel Inlet
200 miles east
wi 21 May vk 21 Jul si 25 Aug 1 Aug
as 13 Jul
tt 4 Jul
io 13 Jul

se 17 Jun

ly on 2 October 2005!